Gender = Sexism

February 1, 2012

What would happen if we replaced the word “gender” with the word “sexism”?

For example:

Gender Dysphoria = Sexism Dysphoria

Gender Identity = Sexist Stereotype Identity

Gender Affirmation Surgery = Sexism Affirmation Surgery

Gender Transition = Sex Role Stereotype Transition

Genderqueer = Sexistqueer

Transgender = Cross-Sex-Stereotype

Gender Reassignment = Stereotypical Sex Role Reassignment

Transphobia = Sexism-phobia

Well let’s have a look:

A selection of Wikipedia excerpts, replacing the word “gender” with “sexism”:

Corrections are in blue:

Transgender “Cross-sex-stereotype” is the state of one’s “gender identity”sexist stereotype (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both a sex stereotype) not matching one’s “assigned sex” (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex).[1] “Transgender”“Cross-sex-stereotype” does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgenderCross-sex-stereotypical people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgendercross-sex-stereotypism remains in flux, but includes:

0.”Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles sex stereotypes, but combines sexist stereotypes or moves between these.”[2]

0.”People who were assigned a sexsex role stereotype, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves.”[3]

0.”Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sexsex stereotype (and assumed gender sex role stereotype ) one was assigned at birth.”[4]

A transgendercross-sex-stereotype individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender sexist stereotype, identify elsewhere on the traditional gendersexist stereotype continuum, or exist outside of it as “other”, “agender” “asexist-stereotype“, “Genderqueer” “Sexist stereotype queer” , or “third gender” “third sexist stereotype”. TransgenderCross-sexist stereotype people may also identify as bigenderbi-sexist stereotypes, or along several places on either the traditional transgendersexist stereotype continuum, or the more encompassing sexist stereotype continuums which have been developed in response to the significantly more detailed studies done in recent years.[5]

The term transgender (TG) was popularised in the 1970s[6] (but implied in the 1960s[7][8]) describing people who wanted to live cross-gender cross-sexist stereotypical role without sex reassignment surgerysexism confirmation surgery.[9] In the 1980s the term was expanded to an umbrella term,[10] and became popular as a means of uniting all those whose gender identity sexist stereotypes did not mesh with their gendersexist stereotype assigned at birth.[11]

People who live cross-gendercross-sex-stereotypes

People who live cross-gendercross-sexist stereotypes live always or mostly as the gendersexist stereotype other than that assigned at birth. If they want to be or identify as their gendersexist stereotype assigned at birth, then the term “crossdresser”[46] may be used. If they want to be or identify as the gendersex role stereotype they always or mostly live in, then the term “transsexual” may be used.[30] The term “transgender”[47][48][49] or “transgenderist”[50] has been applied to people who live cross-gendercross-sexist stereotypes without sex reassignment surgerysexism confirmation surgery.

Transgender people Sex stereotypists and feminism

Some feminists and feminist groups are supportive of transgendersexist people. Others are not.

Though second-wave feminism argued for the sex and gendersexist stereotype distinction, some feminists believed there was a conflict between transgenderidentitysexist stereotypes and the feminist cause. These feminists believed, for example, that male-to-female sex stereotype transition abandoned or devalued female identitybiological reality, and that trangendersexist stereotype embracing people embraced traditional gendersexist roles and stereotypes. Many transgendercross-sex-stereotypeembracing feminists, however, viewed themselves as contributing positively to feminism by questioning and subverting gendersexist stereotype norms. Third wave and contemporary feminism have tended to be more accepting of transgendersexist stereotype embracing people.[57]

Feminist writer Janice Raymond asserts that sex determines gender sex, and that there is no practical difference between the two. In her view, genitalia or “birth sex” or chromosomes deeply and permanently determine one’s essential identitysex as a woman or man; trying to violate this divide is impossible, unnatural, and unhealthy. She argues that while transpeoplesexists may claim to feel like a certain gendersexist stereotype, only a biological female can genuinely feel what it is to occupy a woman’s body, including having experiences such as childbirth.[58]

TransgenderSexist stereotype embracing people and the law

Legal procedures exist in some jurisdictions allowing individuals to change their legal gendersex, or their sexist stereotypical name, to reflect their gender identity sexism. Requirements for these procedures vary from an explicit formal diagnosis of transsexualism, to a diagnosis of gendersexist identity disorder, to a letter from a physician attesting to the individual’s gendersexist stereotype transition, or the fact that one has established a different gendersexist stereotype role.[71]

TransphobiaSexism-phobia (or less commonly cissexism feminism, transsex stereotype prejudice, and trans dude-misogyny, referring to transphobia directed toward trans-womensexistmen or translady-misandry, referring to transphobia sexism-phobia directed toward trans mensexist women) is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgendersexist and sexist stereotype embracing people, based on the expression of their internal gender identitysexism (see Phobia – terms indicating prejudice or class discrimination). Whether intentional or not, transphobiasex stereotype-phobia can have severe consequences for the target of the negative attitude. Many transsexist stereotype embracing people also experience homophobia from people who associate their gender identitycross-sex stereotypes with homosexuality.

Some members of the LGBT communities are uncomfortable with transgendersexist stereotyping individuals and issues. For example, trans womenmen are sometimes denied entry to women’s spaces, an attitude which TransgenderSexist activists consider to be transsexism-phobic. The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, for instance, has caused much debate for limiting its attendance to “womyn-born womyn”.[12]

Womyn-born-womyn

Janice Raymond, Mary Daly and Sheila Jeffreys, among others, argue that the feminist movement should not concern itself in any way with the needs of trans womensex-stereotype embracingmales. The idea that only “womyn-born-womyn” can fully identify with the experience of being a woman conflicts with the concept that “biology does not equal destiny”. Opponents argue that excluding trans womensex-stereotype embracingmales from women’s spaces denies sex stereotype embracingmales their right to self-identification.

Gender-bender= Sexism-bender: stretching & exaggerating one’s sexism, twisting one’s sexism into a pretzel
Genderfuck= Sexismfuck
Gender Studies= Sexism Studies
Bi-gendered= Having two styles of sexism or sex role stereotypes
Multi-gendered= Having many forms of sexism
Cis-gendered= On the same side of originally assigned sex role stereotype
Omni-gendered= Sexism everywhere, infinite sexism, sex role stereotypes ad infinitum

Opps the above comment was reffering to the post regarding the fellow who pretends that he is a paraplegic (while also he pretends he is a woman). I messed up and I apologise.Could you move it to the correct post please.Thank you in advance.

[sorry Maria I can’t move them- if you want to re-post it in that thread feel free!
P.s. “The crazy is strong with this one” LOL I imagined Yoda from starwars when I read that, haha. -GM]

Ok, one more thing: ah….what DOES Genderqueer mean? NOBODY has EVER EVER DEFINED it, to my satisfaction. It is the most amorphous meaningless word I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS, and I cannot figure how one can hinge their entire identity on a word that basically has no real meaning! So, if you or another have at least A definition, I’m all ears..please do share it here!

It’s one more euphemism. One more version of “people,” really, for Lesbians afraid to identify as Lesbian. I’m still amazed at Lesbians who are afraid/don’t like using the word “Lesbian” for themselves or are afraid to use it at all. They will say “ladies” or any silly crap. So, for all their bravado and trendiness, I think “genderqueer” is like that — an in with gay men, as vague as “people,” no real threat to hetero-patriarchy, but sounding courageous. It’s like a variation on “bisexual” really. And of course it’s also an in to “transitioning,” for those who want to play at trendy F2T without going further.

Thank you for that, Sheila. You made me crack up again, it’s so painfully true! What do we do with this information? Forward it to a Sexism Studies professor? Or dean? Or submit it in a letter to the editor of a campus newspaper? Put it on the WST-L list?

Damn, now I’m tempted to do that last one! Copy and paste Mag’s whole post to that list. ROFL!!!!!!